A group of Ukrainian Army soldiers pierced by Russian grenades and mortar shells arrived at a hospital recently in need of surgery.
It would have been a familiar scene from the bloody war grinding on in Ukraine, except for two crucial differences: Most of the wounded soldiers were American, and so was the hospital — the U.S. Army’s flagship medical center in Germany.
The Army has quietly started to treat wounded Americans and other fighters evacuated from Ukraine at its Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.
When the war erupted in 2022, hundreds of Americans — many of them military veterans — rushed to help defend Ukraine.
Most of the wounded have had to rely on a patchwork of Ukrainian hospitals and Western charities for help.
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Ukrainian Army, Army, Regional Medical Center, Ukrainian, Pentagon
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Ukraine, Germany, United States